WASHINGTON -- NetWitness, a product of ManTech International Corporation (Nasdaq:MANT), now offers an improved solution for analyzing network traffic produced by Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). The enhancements to the highly rated NetWitness product line will allow organizations to deploy and integrate NetWitness appliances with popular IDS systems to significantly improve their ability to analyze data.

Unveiled at the Gartner IT Security Conference, this new capability makes existing intrusion detection infrastructures more effective, which increases the efficiency and productivity of network security personnel.

“Organizations have invested significant capital to deploy network intrusion detection systems for the inspection of potentially malicious network traffic entering, leaving and traversing their infrastructure,” said Chris Coleman, Vice President, ManTech International Corporation. “These systems can generate large amounts of information that a security analyst must ingest and analyze to determine an accurate threat. The greatest challenge facing analysts is identifying false positives and prioritizing true events within the vast amount of data.”

NetWitness enterprise appliances now offer a module that can subscribe to any RDEP/SDEE compatible intrusion sensor, such as Cisco Systems IPS 4200 Series. By coupling NetWitness with an existing IDS infrastructure, analysts will be provided an invaluable capability for network traffic analysis and forensics that can decode and reassemble the surrounding packets produced by targeted IDS signatures and events.

“NetWitness enables any security analyst to interpret and process packet data at the application layer without requiring sophisticated knowledge of network technologies, which is required when using traditional packet analyzers,” said Brian Girardi, Managing Director of NetWitness Products. “As a result, our customers see productivity increases by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude, while analyzing and clarifying network traffic produced by their security infrastructure.”

ManTech International Corp.